2018

🎙 26 Nov | BNR: The Case of: AI in Media Part I – TechInterview for BNR’s AI Podcast where I talk about SMART Journalism. link

📰 12 Oct | De Volkskrant: Met deze eigen zoekmachine spit de politie schatten aan digitaal bewijs doorInterview about the searchengine developed by the NFI, and its use in the high-profile Mocro maffia court cases, with my view on its role in the collection digital evidence. link

📰 9 Oct | IP – vakblad voor informatieprofessionals: Vensters op een nieuwe werkelijkheid. [image]Interviewed as a ‘young professional’ that show that traditional categories and thinking frames need to be readjusted, where I explain how my background and cross between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ science helps in my current work in AI and media.

🌐 10 Oct | Villamedia: De journalist en de nerdMuch needed and insightful nuance by Nick Kivits in an op-ed in response to our three-way interview on Villamedia (below). Nick advocates for IT folks and journalists to meet for coffee and collaborate, instead of having mutual suspicion or distrust. link

🎦 6 Oct | RTL XL: How it’s doneTelevision show about intelligence and business information. In this video me and Company.info’s CTO Henk Pijper discuss our work in AI and news. YouTube | blog

📰 10 July | Communications of the ACM (CACM): Dutch Police Fight Crime by Cracking PGP PhonesArticle about my work for Inez Weski on the Noffel case. link

🌐 1 May | Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek: Waar blijft de robotjournalistiek in Nederland?Article about ‘robo-journalism’, where I say something about the SMART Journalism project we are doing at FDMG, which involves personalization and summarization of newspaper articles. link

🌐 18 Apr | Nemo Kennislink: Het sleepnet van JustitieArticle about the research I did into the digital forensic methods of the NFI/Dutch Public Prosecutors in the high-profile “Noffel” case. link

👋 Hello

I am a lead data scientist at the FD Mediagroep, where I lead a team of four data scientists on the award winning BNR SMART Radio, and FD’s SMART Journalism projects. I obtained my PhD in Information Retrieval at ILPS (at the University of Amsterdam) in 2017 under supervision of prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke.